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It seems like Google has burned up nearly all the goodwill it used to have years ago. They now have a nearly broken search engine that needs the term “Reddit” a

It seems like Google has burned up nearly all the goodwill it used to have years ago. They now have a nearly broken search engine that needs the term “Reddit” appended to get anything useful, and you routinely hear horror stories about them acting badly without any regard to users. I hope they get disrupted and replaced by bing chat and others asap. The only thing that will possibly teach them a lesson is if their business results start rolling over in a big way and large activist investors can cause the board to realize they need to replace Sundar with someone who gets that radical change is needed.

danpalmer 4y ago
These are memes that are popular on HN, but don't reflect reality outside of the tech bubble. There are of course elements of truth to them, hence why they're so pervasive, but they are not representative of reality.
- igortg 4y ago
  Partially agree, but ... the tech bubble is pretty good on dictate trends and set standards that the general public will be in 2-3 years in advance.
  - danpalmer 4y ago
    I'm not sure that's accurate. We'd like to think so, but most tech trends don't take off and go mainstream.
  - ROTMetro 4y ago
    Is that still true? I think a group of tech influencers existed in the past but I don't see any evidence that continues to be the case. I guess they could all exist in discords I don't have site into. Previously you could see trends migrate through tech communities and out into the world. I don't really see that now.
- NineStarPoint 4y ago
  It's for this reason that Google's ad business isn't really in danger at the moment, yes. People are going to continue to use google search and gmail and chrome. But having this reputation in the tech bubble negatively effects things like google cloud that tech people get to make decisions on. This is one of the reasons that google cloud is so far behind AWS and Azure in adoption.
  - scarby2 4y ago
    The only reason it might be behind azure is how aggressively Microsoft market azure to existing customers and bundle it with other products. As a standalone product I'm not sure anyone would use it.
    - dustymcp 4y ago
      Azure has been nice to work with i have been comped multiple times for our own mistakes support is great im really not sure i get the hate..
sqldba 4y ago
I'm amazed you think there's any goodwill for Google at all. Their search engine sucks shit these days.
ChatGTP 4y ago
It's funny you're appending Reddit to your searches too. I noticed this is very common, ha.

danpalmer 4y ago

These are memes that are popular on HN, but don't reflect reality outside of the tech bubble. There are of course elements of truth to them, hence why they're so pervasive, but they are not representative of reality.

igortg 4y ago
Partially agree, but ... the tech bubble is pretty good on dictate trends and set standards that the general public will be in 2-3 years in advance.
- danpalmer 4y ago
  I'm not sure that's accurate. We'd like to think so, but most tech trends don't take off and go mainstream.
- ROTMetro 4y ago
  Is that still true? I think a group of tech influencers existed in the past but I don't see any evidence that continues to be the case. I guess they could all exist in discords I don't have site into. Previously you could see trends migrate through tech communities and out into the world. I don't really see that now.
NineStarPoint 4y ago
It's for this reason that Google's ad business isn't really in danger at the moment, yes. People are going to continue to use google search and gmail and chrome. But having this reputation in the tech bubble negatively effects things like google cloud that tech people get to make decisions on. This is one of the reasons that google cloud is so far behind AWS and Azure in adoption.
- scarby2 4y ago
  The only reason it might be behind azure is how aggressively Microsoft market azure to existing customers and bundle it with other products. As a standalone product I'm not sure anyone would use it.
  - dustymcp 4y ago
    Azure has been nice to work with i have been comped multiple times for our own mistakes support is great im really not sure i get the hate..

sqldba 4y ago

I'm amazed you think there's any goodwill for Google at all. Their search engine sucks shit these days.

ChatGTP 4y ago

It's funny you're appending Reddit to your searches too. I noticed this is very common, ha.